Still having some problems with queue

[Ugo Bellavance]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Chris [mailto:cwharris at MORGAN.NET]
> Envoyé : Monday, January 12, 2004 4:41 PM
> À : MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Objet : Re: Still having some problems with queue
> 
> 
> The queue is on the same disk.
> 
> I am not checking any RBL's.
> 
> I do however have Razor, DCC and Pyzor installed.
> 
> Not sure what Softupdates is.

One of the most basic concepts in FreeBSD.  Have you read the FreeBSD handbook?  Very good book.  I think it is enabled by default, but I'm not sure.  It is a way to treat writes on a disk.

> 
> if I do top it looks like this:
> 
> CPU states: 53.9% user,  0.0% nice, 21.3% system,  0.8% 
> interrupt, 24.0%
> idle
> Mem: 215M Active, 141M Inact, 109M Wired, 23M Cache, 61M Buf, 14M Free
> Swap: 1008M Total, 12M Used, 996M Free, 1% Inuse
> 
> Comp is a Pentium 4 2.53GHz
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Hepworth" <martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 11:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Still having some problems with queue
> > about to head off home, so just a few things to consider...
> >
> > have you got the mail queue dir's on a separate disk?
> >
> > have you checked the RBL's, and made sure non of them are 
> timing out?
> > What RBL's are you running?
> >
> > have you got softupdates configured on the file system with 
> the message
> > queue and MailScanner working directory.
> >
> > How much memory have you got, and how much swap are you 
> running? (top
> > will show how much is being used). What CPU is running on 
> the system,
> > and is the load showing above high when you get these backlogs?
> >
> > It really sounds like something is slowing the system down, is there
> > anything in the maillog to indicate this? have you checked 
> the SA files
> > with --lint?
> >
> > What happens if you run MailScanner in debug mode, any 
> indications of
> > slow down/timeouts there..
> >
> >
> > --
> > Martin Hepworth
> > Snr Systems Administrator
> > Solid State Logic
> > Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> >
> >
> > 
> **********************************************************************
> >
> > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and
> > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they
> > are addressed. If you have received this email in error 
> please notify
> > the system manager.
> >
> > This footnote confirms that this email message has been swept
> > for the presence of computer viruses and is believed to be clean.
> >
> > 
> **********************************************************************
> >
> >
>